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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Funeral Thought (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 4 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound!
- My ears attend the cry:--
- Ye living men! come view the ground
- Where you must shortly lie.
- 2Princes! this clay must be your bed,
- In spite of all your towers;
- The tall, the wise, the reverend head
- Must lie as low as ours.
- 3Great God! is this our certain doom?
- And are we still secure?
- Still walking downward to our tomb,
- And yet prepare no more!
- 4Grant us the powers of quickening grace
- To fit our souls to fly;
- Then, when we drop this dying flesh,
- We'll rise above the sky.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the A Funeral Thought page.
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